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“My Place Was Set At The Terrible Feast”: The Meanings of the “Anti-Psychiatry” Movement and Responses in the United States, 1970s--1990s (2014)

Journal of American Culture
Volume: 37
Pages: 37--51

Publication Date: 2014
Edition Details: Special Edition: Mental Health and Illness in American Culture
Language: English

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Psychiatry Patients Therapeutic practice; therapy; treatment Medicine and gender Psychiatric hospitals Mental disorders and diseases Medicine and culture Public understanding of medicine 20th century, late

The anti-psychiatry movement was a group of ex-psychiatric patients, as well as intellectuals and writers, who organized to advocate for more humane treatment of the mentally ill and to question the very concept of madness and the social control inherent in the psychiatric system. Gaining momentum during the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s, thinkers and writers of the movement suggested that doctors had been too keen to medicalize eccentric behaviour, inhibiting both individuality and unconventional thinking. As such, they were particularly critical of biological psychiatry, especially psychosurgeries, shock treatments, and psychotropic drugs (Shorter, History of Psychiatry 313; Rissmiller and Rissmiller 863). At the same moment that the therapeutic impulse was becoming more diffuse in American society, in the form of alternative therapeutic practices and settings such as consciousness raising, leftist radical therapy, therapeutic communities, experimental wards, feminist clinical practices and therapy, as well as self-help, anti-psychiatry offered a radical assessment of psychiatry broadly conceived as inherently repressive, belittling, and spirit-crushing (Herman 255). [from Introduction]

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